Africa Management Expert, Speaker, Author
Cape Town is running out of water. DAY ZERO – the day when water reserves are at zero – is approaching. For three consecutive years rainfalls were less than normal. But it is not the missing rainfall, reasons for the water shortage in the urban agglomeration of 3,8 million people go deeper, says the Economist. It is a …
The African industrialization through Chinese entrepreneurs, that is the theses put forward by Irene Yuan Sun. Her new book “The next factory of the world – How Chinese Investment is reshaping Africa” ….
Did you notice that elections in Kenya disappeared from media coverage in Austria/Germany before the exact outcome was resolved? Learn what determines African societies and economies. Watch out for opportunities to cooperate.
First Innovation, then Regulation – What we can learn from Africa “You can not innovate under regulation. You have to take risks”, says Bitange Ndemo, former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication in Kenya. He knows. During his time in government, from 2005 to 2013, the transformation of the Kenyan ICT sector has been forged: undersea submarine cables, …
Software is eating the world – about African innovation “Why software is eating the world” has been the title of a famous essay by Marc Andreessen in the Wall Street Journal in 2011. Being in Nairobi, I have been heavily reminded on that. While arriving at the airport, I buy a local Safaricom SIM-Card, put it into …
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Claiming our Humanity – Managing the Digital Age … … is the theme of the Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015 (#GPDF15), taking place in Vienna on November 5th and 6th, 2015. High ranking speakers and participants, from Charles Handy, Henry Mintzberg, Tammy Erickson to Dambisa Moyo and Zhang Ruimin, President & CEO of the Chinese Haier Group. And many …
In the run-up to the Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in Vienna on November 5 and 6, 2015, a nicely featured blog series builds up momentum. A very insightful blogpost comes from Vlatka Hlupic: Let’s get the future right this time Vlatka compares current times of transition to a digital society with the 1950s and 1960s in …
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Watch out. Times of transition bear the phenomena of tipping points. The Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in Vienna on November 5 and 6, 2015, is building up such a critical mass of ideas, theories, people and networks in new and different management thinking which has the capacity for a paradigm shift. This year’s theme is …
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Dambisa Moyo, bestselling author and a big voice when it comes to abandon development aid for Africa, comes to the Global Peter Drucker Forum to Vienna on November 5 and 6, 2015. In her blogpost at the Drucker Blog, Dambisa rises concern that digitalization and its accompanying annihilation of jobs will specifically hurt African countries with their growing and …
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To be a manager is not really “in” in the moment. Managers are very much associated with obscenely high bonuses and at the same time with mass lay-offs of employees. Managers make our societies more unequal and more unsustainable. No wonder nobody thinks of managers when it comes to making the world a better place. And yet it is the profession …